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A dialogical action research approach to innovation as organisational change
(2008)
This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is presented ...
LCA/LCC tools for environmental compliance
(2007)
SMEs are increasingly aware of the importance of the environmental impact of their business especially because of customer and legislation demands to support organisations complying with environmental directives. The authors ...
Incubating engineers: entrepreneur-student collaboration in the teaching of entrepreneurship to mechanical engineers
(2014-06-11)
This paper will provide an example of using student-entrepreneur collaboration in the teaching of a module on entrepreneurship to Mechanical Engineering final year students at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) ...
Can appreciative inquiry reawaken the spirit of action research?
(2012)
The paper seeks to explore how Appreciative Inquiry (AI) can contribute to Action Research (AR), especially in the Irish health sector.
Leveraging the green economy: recovering contaminated wood as pallet blocks
(2010)
The market for clean wood has been growing in the last years; however, waste wood hasn’t been considered a resource mainly because it usually arises as part of a mixed waste stream and it is predominantly contaminated, ...
Short interval management and the quest for process innovation: something new or déjà vu
(2009)
Ireland still punches way above its weight internationally attracting 2% of total global foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2008 which amounted to circa €2 billion (IDA, 2009). The focus of the IDA (Industrial Development ...
Life cycle cost estimation tool for decision-making in the early phases of the design process
(2007)
Design is a process that involves information processing and decision-making. As cost is an important factor that must be considered in the decision-making at this phase, proper information about costs is extremely important ...